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Tool to reduce a partition's size and create a new one from the command-line
At the moment I don't have any free space:
(parted) mkpart
Partition type? primary/extended? primary
File system type? [ext2]? ext4
Start? 60G
End? 62.9G
Warning: You requested a partition from ...
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Partitioning disk image file
I want to partition raw disk image with the following commands
#creating the blank image
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=example.img bs=1M count=50
#write the partition table
$ parted example.img mktable msdos
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Resize non-LVM ext4 root partition
How can I shrink/resize a non-LVM ext4 root partition?
The problem is I can't unmount it and I don't have physical access.
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How can I script the creation of a single partition that uses the entire device?
I am specifically using this to partition and mount EBS volumes on Amazon EC2 instances, but really this should be generally applicable to initializing any new drive.
As the question says I want to ...
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Unable to create logical partition with Parted
I was fiddling around with parted command on a loopback disk and tried to create some partitions using gpt part table but I keep getting Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition. when ...
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Partition table not recognized by Linux kernel
I experience relatively often that the partition table of a USB stick or SD card is suddenly no longer recognized by the kernel while (g)parted and fdisk still see it, as do other systems. I can even ...
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How to properly align partitions?
I'm trying to understand what are the rules for creating correctly aligned partitions.
For the moment I'm playing with parted on a virtual machine, but I'm planning to move to a real hard disk when I ...
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Gnu Parted Error in HardDisk of Linux?
Anyone help me, why the error getting when excuting the fdisk -l command in linux.
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support ...
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How to resize an LVM partition at the beginning
I have resized lvm partitions in the past, but after the resize there is space at the end of the partition. What I want to achive is to have the space at the beginning of the partition instead.
The ...
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Adding a populated existing disk device to a QEMU raw image
I have a raw QEMU image (vda.raw), and I would like to resize it and add an existing partition, using data I have in a file that contains a raw ext3 file system populated with data (vdb.raw). The two ...
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WD MyBook 3TB - Gparted failed & HDD partitions recovery?
I have this new WD MyBook external HDD (USB 3.0/2.0); I created 3 partitions all of them ext3 type (~1 TB | ~1 TB | ~750 GB)
I loaded lots of files all the partitions were like ~30% full on each, and ...
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How to partition 22TB disk?
I have a 22TB disk on /dev/sdb. How do I create a 22TB partition? Don't really care about the file system - ext4 or zfs is fine.
Running CentOS 6.2 - Partition will be used as a data dump. Only a ...
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How do I create new partitions and format my hard drive in parted?
I'm somewhat new to working with commandline tools when dealing with partitioning, so you'll have to excuse my newness.
I'm basically trying to create a new logical partition on /dev/sdb and would ...
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How does partprobe work?
I was looking for a way to refresh the scsi bus (or any other bus, for that matter) that would allow my kernel ( 2.6.18-194-el5 on CentOS 5.5) to know about the partitions on a drive, and I couldn't ...
